"Poverty in the United States: An Overview" by Cliff Brown
Brown presents key facts about the nature, extent, and causes of poverty in the U.S. He makes two main points: 1) Aggregate rates of poverty do not capture variation in its rate across sub-groups in the U.S., and 2) Americans tend to explain the causes of poverty in terms of personal and individual causal factors, such as the ability, efforts, and morals of people rather than their circumstances such as discrimination and blocked socioeconomic opportunities.
-Poverty is roughly equally distributed across major statuses such as race/ethnicity, age, family structure, and sex.

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Brown notes that aggregate rates of poverty do not capture variation in its rate across sub-groups in the U.S. while poverty rates vary across major statuses such as race/ethnicity, age, family structure, and sex.

"Poverty in the United States: an Overview" by Cliff Brown